It is slated (says a con temporary) that within a moderate radius of Auckland over -10 calves are being killed weekly at the present time. The high price of butter has a good deal lo do with this “slaughter of the innocents.” No milk is likely to be spared to feed calves when 2s (id per lb. can be got for butler. The outlook for the future is, however, a serious one. If no calves are reared, dairy cattle will be at prohibitive prices in a few years' time, while beef must become as expensive an article of diet as butler is at present. The man in the backblocks who cannot get milk Lo a factory should, lurwever, gain in (he future if he rears the calves.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2199, 6 November 1920, Page 4
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127Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2199, 6 November 1920, Page 4
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